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Re: PGP stock answers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alicia Allen)
Thu Jul 1 13:07:26 1999
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Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:07:10 -0400
To: Chris Griffith <cg@mit.edu>, is-home@mit.edu
From: Alicia Allen <iggy@MIT.EDU>
It is the only place with even close to correct MIT information.
I am also looking into seeing if we could get someone from pubs to pay
these pages a little attention. I am very hesitant to send people to a
non-MIT site.
Alicai
At 1:04 PM -0400 7/1/99, Chris Griffith wrote:
>Bear in mind that the PGP page in the network locker is out of date (last
>mod 1997).
>
>I don't know if this should be canonical "right" answer, but if someone
>asked me for PGP, I would direct them to:
>http://www.pgpi.com/
>
>pgpi.com has versions for Mac OS, Windows, UNIX, VMS and several other OS'es.
>
>Chris
>
>
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>>>Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 17:03:39 -0400
>>>To: rccstock@mit.edu
>>>From: Alicia Allen <iggy@MIT.EDU>
>>>Subject: PGP stock answers
>>>
>>>Hi,
>>>I think that under Network we should have a section called PGP and fill it
>>>with some PGP stock answers...
>>>
>>>
>>>Where can I find out more about PGP at MIT?
>>>
>>>http://web/network/pgp.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>What is PGP?
>>>
>>>PGP or Pretty Good (TM) Privacy is a high-security cryptographic software
>>>application that allows people to exchange messages with both privacy and
>>>authentication.
>>>
>>> Privacy means that only those intended to receive a message can read it.
>>>By providing the ability to encrypt messages, PGP provides protection
>>>against anyone eavesdropping on the network. Even if a packet is
>>>intercepted, it will be unreadable to the snooper. Authentication ensures
>>>that a message appearing to be from a particular person can have originated
>>>from that person only, and that the message has not been altered. In
>>>addition to its support for messages, PGP also enables you to encrypt files
>>>stored on your computer.
>>>
>>>
>>>There might be more in the future, but this will do for now...
>>>
>>>thanks!
>>>Alicia
>>>
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>>>Alicia Allen iggy@mit.edu
>>>
>>>MIT Resnet Coordinator (617) 253-0191
>>>MIT Network Security N42-140
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Alicia Allen iggy@mit.edu
MIT Resnet Coordinator (617) 253-0191
MIT Network Security N42-140
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